Teaching terrorists to be good
Over the last few years, courts in Denmark have imprisoned seven Danish Muslims for planning terrorist attacks, but authorities are concerned that they may resume plotting once they are released from jail. Now the government has come up with a plan "to re-educate terrorists." According to a front page report in Politiken, the liberal-conservative coalition wants to impose an obligatory "release programme" to ensure that they change their minds about the use of violence. For example, imams will be be sent to visit inmates to explain to them that terrorism is not the solution. Quoted in the Politiken report, Conservative MP Naser Khader insists that "it is important to bear in mind that terrorist offenders may still present a threat when they are released from prison." Both the extreme-right Danish People's Party and the Social Democrats have also voiced their support for the plan.
In a time of crisis with high unemployment, young Lithuanians are following in the footsteps of their emigrant ancestors. Tens of thousands have left the country in search of a better life, mainly in the British Isles and Scandinavia. The weekly Veidas reports:
The new Eurogroup meeting on February 9 is not enough to banish the spectre of a Greek bankruptcy. While Athens may largely be responsible for the crisis, the EU and its partners are not blameless themselves. La Stampa argues that their confused messages and the absence of any strategy have transformed a resolvable problem into an explosive chaos.
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